I do that -- couldn't fit into the sentence the way I've selected which
cookies -- and other things, like pop-ups -- to expire when I kill the
browser, or after leaving a session.
I guess my trouble is I know enough about why I should be worried --
ignorance, it is said, can be bliss. On the other hand, another fairly
wise person said just cause you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out
to get you.
On the other hand, we all, including me, take risks every day. We fill
out applications at nearly every store we patronize just to get a few
cents off on the dollar, and put ourselves on mailing lists they use to
target our shopping habits, and then sell to others who want us to
patronize there establishments.
(If you want to track what happens to your name and address, try
misspelling your name and see how many things start showing up in your
mailbox with the incorrectly spelled moniker.)
I still don't like them -- cookies or silly sign-ups. But I wouldn't be
on this list, or several others, without the Yahoo account that tracks
my usage, which groups I belong to, etc.
Oh well. I guess we don't need to get off on another spelling and
grammar-type discussion.
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:23:32 -0400 J Messeder said:
>
>
>> So here I am on my computer and every time I go to a bank or (fill in a
>> multitude of blanks) I have these little pieces of data reporting back
>> to who knows who where I've been and how long I stayed and at the drop
>> of "We're from the government and we're just trying to keep everyone
>> safe," whoever's been collecting the data turns it all over, while my
>> bank and several other sites want me to give them special permission
>> past my firewall that's in place to stop just what they want to do, and
>> a credit card company tells me I'm on a new computer and have to be
>> reauthorized because I kill cookies as quickly as I can, often as soon
>> as I leave the site that left them.
>> Other'n that, they're OK.
>>
>
> Paranoid much? Don't forget to also delete your browser's cache,
> history and bookmarks. After all, if they can read your cookies, they
> can read those, too...
>
> Be real. You're only shooting yourself in the foot by deleting ALL
> cookies indiscriminately. Set your system to disallow third-party
> cookies, and use common sense on what to remove.
>
>
--
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table.” /
(News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary
of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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